HOW TO INSTALL KATE EDITOR (KATE TEXT EDITOR) IN UBUNTU 16.04 – A BEST LINUX TEXT EDITOR

by Balamukunda Sahu · November 3, 2017

Introduction

In this article we are going to learn How to install Kate editor in Ubuntu 16.04. Kate text editor is a open source linux text editor application stands for KDE Advance Text Editor. This application was developed using C++ programming language and released under GPL license. Kate editor is a nice light weight all in one application comes with several features listed below :

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Kate editor is a cross platform application available for Linux, MacOS & Microsoft Windows.
It is available for both 32 bit and 64 bit operating systems.
Kate Linux text editor supports multiple line search and replace feature. means you can search for multiple words at a same time.
Kate also comes with programming language supportable features like auto complete coding arguments and expressions, automatically detect and close the brackets.
Supports almost 250+ languages.
Can open and edit the files available on remote system.
You can split the Kate test editor window vertically and horizontaly.

For more Information & Features of Kate Text Editor you can visit the official website Here!

Follow the below steps to install Kate editor (Kate Text Editor) in Ubuntu 16.04 – A Best Linux Text Editor

Before start the installation of Kate editor let’s update the packages & repositories of Ubuntu 16.04 using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get update   # Update Packages & Repositories
Hit:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease                                                
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Reading package lists... Done

After update the packages and repositories we are ready to install the kate text editor package. So let’s go ahead and install the same using below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install kate   # Install Kate Linux Text Editor
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  javascript-common kate5-data kinit kio kpackagelauncherqml kpackagetool5 ktexteditor-data ktexteditor-katepart kwayland-data kwayland-integration libfam0 libgit2-24
  libhttp-parser2.1 libjs-jquery libjs-underscore libkf5activities5 libkf5archive5 libkf5attica5 libkf5auth-data libkf5auth5 libkf5bookmarks-data libkf5bookmarks5
  libkf5calendarevents5 libkf5codecs-data libkf5codecs5 libkf5completion-data libkf5completion5 libkf5config-bin libkf5config-data libkf5configcore5 libkf5configgui5
  libkf5configwidgets-data libkf5configwidgets5 libkf5coreaddons-data libkf5coreaddons5 libkf5crash5 libkf5dbusaddons-bin libkf5dbusaddons-data libkf5dbusaddons5
.
.
0 upgraded, 117 newly installed, 0 to remove and 428 not upgraded.
Need to get 23.8 MB of archives.
After this operation, 120 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y  ---> Enter 'y' to continue the installation

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As you can see above we have successfully installed the Kate editor package. To confirm the same refer the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -l kate   # Confirm the installed Package
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                                 Version                 Architecture            Description
+++-====================================-=======================-=======================-=============================================================================
ii  kate                                 4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2      amd64                   powerful text editor

Now to open the application just type the command kate on shell prompt. Refer the command below.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ kate   # Open the Kate text editor application

KATE EDITOR APPLICATION

Kate text editor application version :

KATE TEXT EDITOR APPLICATION VERSION

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You can also open the kate editor (Linux Text Editor) application graphically using Search your computer box. Refer the snapshot below.

OPEN LINUX TEXT EDITOR APPLICATION GRAPHICALLY

To Uninstall the Kate text editor package use the below command.

elinuxbook@ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -r kate   # Uninstall the Kate editor application
(Reading database ... 178809 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing kate (4:15.12.3-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3.1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160824-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...

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